# St. Antonino — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism character guide

> St. Antonino in Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** St. Antonino

**First appearance:** 0003-religion-and-the-rise-of-capitalism

## Who they are

Italian Dominican friar and moral theologian.

## In the story

### [The Social Organism](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/religion_and_the_rise_of_capitalism_se/chapters/i-the-social-organism)

Cited as an example of a medieval Schoolman whose economic teaching in the fifteenth century was more complex and realistic than that of St. Thomas in the thirteenth, illustrating the development of medieval social theory.

### [The Sin of Avarice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/religion_and_the_rise_of_capitalism_se/chapters/ii-the-sin-of-avarice)

Fifteenth-century theologian who introduced a more flexible three-grade price system (pius, discretus, rigidus) and argued that price fairness was a matter of probability and conjecture.

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